Felix Yusupov

Felix Yusupov (23 March 1887-27 September 1967) was a member of the Russian nobility and the assassin of Grigori Rasputin.

Biography
Felix Yusupov was born on 23 March 1887 in Moika Palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, the son of a Russian nobleman and a Crimean Tatar noblewoman. Yusupov adopted his mother's surname, as she was the last member of the Yusupov dynasty. Yusupov had several estates across the Russian Empire, and he was detained by the German Empire in Berlin at the start of World War I. Yusupov managed to escape from Germany with the help of Spain's ambassador to the German Empire, and he became the head of a hospital for wounded soldiers. In 1916, Yusupov decided to murder the mysterious preacher Grigori Rasputin, whose drinking, lusting, and hunger for power became too much for the Russian people to handle. Yusupov and four others shot Rasputin dead on 30 December 1916, and they threw him into the Neva River to dispose of the body. After the February Revolution, Yusupov left Russia via the Crimea, and he died in exile in Paris, France in 1967 at the age of 80.